Digital BW, The Print

I thought we had established that the R800 can¹t print BO ie that it uses
the colour inks unlike the 21/2200.


From: "chipcarterdc" <chipcarterdc@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:31:29 -0000
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Brief thoughts on R800 black-only print

 I printed 2 pics today w. the R800: one B&W using black ink only, and one
color, both on Premium SemiGloss.   As to the black-only grayscale print --
I'm 
a bit perplexed.  When I printed black only on the 2200, I found that the
prints 
had a strong warm brownish tone.  This print doesn't look like that at all
-- it 
does have a tone that is not "neutral", but it tends toward purple, not
brown, 
and isn't displeasing.  It looks, in terms of tone, like a fairly heavily
toned 
selenium print, but not so heavily toned that you look at it and say it's
purple. I 
can't remember if the black-only prints I did on the 2200 were with the
matte 
black or photo black, so that might account for the difference.  Does anyone
have a black-only print using photo black ink handy, and can you comment on
the tone?

 In terms of image quality w. black only, no complaints -- I don't see any
dots in 
the highlights and the image is nice and sharp.  Admittedly, it wasn't an
image 
that had a wide swatch of sky or anything.  I guess this finding isn't
surprising, 
given the R800's small droplet size.








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